Waiting for the Duke

Lady Lucia White and His Grace, Roland Casper, Duke of Gracefall, fell in love when they were young and na ve. It was a hidden, illicit love. Nobody knew. But he promised to marry her. Then the war with France came, and Roland went away to serve his King. He wouldn't forget her. He promised. The day he leaves is the day her father reveals that their fortune has been lost. They are ruined. Ten years later, Lucia has not received a letter from Roland. She is resigned to a life of spinsterhood. But her mother has other ideas. She wants to marry her off to a sick, wicked, revolting man name Douglas Roper. They are courting when Roland returns, and seeks to reclaim his love. But he cannot openly declare it. The King wants him to marry Lady Rachael Mortimer, a rich, wealthy lady, not at all like the disgraced Lucia White. Lucia is waiting for the Duke to make his move, desperate for him to make the right decision. But she is growing tired of waiting.

When Julia Regan first saw the movie Sense and Sensibility (age the tender age of 16) she was instantly hooked on the Regency period. After that, instead of hanging posters of boy bands and handsome male celebrities in on her walls like her peers, she dreamed of men like who looked like Colin Firth and Hugh Grant--great in a cravat and hunky in a cutaway. Then her English teacher assigned Pride and Prejudice to the class, and Julia found her true calling as a Regency romance author. Julia lives in a drafty historic house in Maine. When she’s not plotting her next story, she can be found encouraging her very tolerant, real-life hero husband to wear breeches and tall boots instead of jeans and workboots, or trying to teach one of their twin boys to waltz instead of play hockey.